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Everything Jim Groom touches is gold. He's like King Midas, but with the Internet.
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“Reverend” Jim “The Bava” Groom, alias “Snake Pliskin” is a charlatan and a fraud, a self-confessed “used car salesman” clawing his way into the glamour of the education technology keynote circuit via the efforts of his oppressed minions at the University of Mary Washington’s DTLT and beyond. The monster behind educational time-sink ds106 and still recovering from his bid for hipster stardom with “Edupunk”, Jim spends his days using his dwindling credibility to sell cheap webhosting to gullible undergraduates and getting banned from YouTube for gross piracy.
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Category Archives: digital identity
My Post-cPanel Toolkit
I spend less and less time in cPanel managing my online presence. I’ve moved bavatuesdays off cPanel 10+ years ago given my blog demanded a bit more juice than shared hosting could provide resource-wise. But once my go-to site went … Continue reading
Talking Digital Identity with GO-GN
There is no better feeling than when some of your plodding experimentation starts to come together after several months of work. Yesterday I had the distinct pleasure of presenting to the GO-GN network about digital identity. I asked Martin Weller … Continue reading
A Stream of One’s Own
On Wednesday, October 14th I will be giving a presentation round Digital identity for the Global OER Graduate Network (GO-GN), in part because they are all being given their own domain and web hosting as a means to develop a … Continue reading
Personal Archiving is an Ongoing Battle Against Web Kipple
While cheering on Tim as he migrated UMW Blogs on Saturday, I discovered that my personal website jimgroom.net was returning a 404. It’s something of an online resume with an RSS feed of recent blog posts I setup using WordPress … Continue reading
Lifebits, the Next Corner of Cyberspace?
Net artist Olia Lialina will be presenting at the Transmedial conference later this month and she reached out in preparation for her talk with a question for me and other folks who run similar projects to Reclaim, such as Neocities, … Continue reading
Reclaim Roadshow at MSU: the Ghost of Digital Presence
We are happy to announce our second Reclaim Roadshow at Michigan State University on February 21st and 22nd of next year. As I already noted in my last post, I’m pretty thrilled with the Scooby-Doo inspired aesthetic we dreamed up … Continue reading
Living in Oblivion
I was on a roll blogging for a bit in September, and for me that is always a sign that I’m getting back into a work groove. But extended grooves have been harder for me this year given travel. I’m … Continue reading
None Shall Pass
It usually starts with a Tweet… King of the Collina pic.twitter.com/uI5QFfUHBL — Jim Groom (@jimgroom) September 23, 2017 And Noise Professor does the rest… YOU SHALL NOT PASS! pic.twitter.com/8gnJbQ2wqV — Zack Dowell (@noiseprofessor) September 23, 2017 His quick Photoshops of … Continue reading
Reclaiming Domain Privacy
One of the issues that’s gotten increasingly troublesome recently has been the increasingly more aggressive domain registration spam and scams. As I wrote earlier this year, it’s gotten to the point where companies are calling our clients soon after sign-up pretending … Continue reading
Goodspell: Gospel Radio for the #ds106 Generation
This past Sunday I was honored to be a guest on the very last episode of Mariana Funes and John Johnston‘s podcast the ds106 Goodspell. They have been talking in detail about 106 bullet points of ds106 that Mariana posted back … Continue reading